Improvement in the manufacture of straw goods



J'. L. MARVIN. Manufacture of Straw Goods.

No. 222,717. Patented Dec. 16, 1879.

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JAMES L. MARVIN, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNQR TO WILLIAM B.

FISHER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT iN THE MANUFACTURE OF STRAW GOODS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,717, dated December 16, 1879 application filed September 13, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES L. MARVIN, of Newark, New Jersey, have made a new and useful invention in Plaited Straw Goods, such as hats, caps, and other goods are made from, which consists in so sewing the plaited straw together that the edges will be brought together on the same plane, and not made to lap the one over the other, as is the usual manner of sewing plaited straw.

The following is such full, clear, and exact description as will enable one skilled in the art to which this invention most nearly appertains to understand the same when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a face View of my improved straw goods. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the stitching. Fig. 3 is a modification of myinvention having a cord or wire sewed in. Fig. 4 is a cross-section of the stitching, plaited straw, and wire shown in Fig. 3.

The usual manner of making plaited-straw goods is to overlap the adjacent parts of the plaited straw and sew through the overlapping part. This manner of making straw goods gives a material of uneven thickness, wastesthe material, and makes the goods heavy by the double thickness of portions of it. My invention consists in the sewing of the braided straw so that the edges are brought together, and embroiderin g over a cord or wire at the seam of the several parts of the goods.

The straw A is formed into plaits, as is ordinarily done on making a hat. The end of this plait is placed in the center and the plait laid about it in a spiral form, the inner edge of the plait of each succeeding round abutting against the outer edge of the plait of the preceding round, and an embroidery-stitch, B, is taken along the spiral seam of the plait thus placed, so that every alternate stitch will be in one round of straw braid or on one side of the seam, and the intermediate stitch in the next succeeding round or other side of the seam, the stitching holding the edges of the two portions of straw together and making a complete hat.

Strips of plaited straw may be fastened together in the same manner by bringing the edges of two pieces together and forming an embroidery-stitch between them, so as to fasten them together to make mats or similar articles.

The embroidery-stitch is best made by Griswolds embroiderysewing machine, but may be made by other means.

I am aware that plaited straw has been sewed together so as to make the adjacent edges abut one another; but this has been done by placing the faces of the adjacent portions together, or nearly so, sewing through the two portions, and then unfolding the thus-fastened material, as is more fully described in Letters Patent Nos. 162,426 and 205,130.

By sewing the portions together with an embroidery-stitch they are firmly fastened in the position it is desired to have them inthe finished article, and are there held by the embroidery on each side of the abutting edges. The necessity of unfolding the sewed goods being done away with, the consequent danger of tearing the straw and breaking the thread is also removed.

A cord or wire may be fed under the embroidery-stitching on either or both sides of the material being sewed, or a cord on one side and wire on the other.

Fig. 3 shows the cord 0 or wire on the sewed plaited-straw goods, which is seen in section at Fig. 4.. The cord has an ornamental effect on the goods produced, and makes them somewhat stronger.

By uniting a wire, D, with the straw the desired stiffness may be given to the goods by means of the frame thus formed with the material, which may be bent in any desired shape,

and will retain the shape given toit. This wire does away with the necessity for coating the goods with sizing to give them the required stiffness, as is ordinarily done.

By suitably covering the wire it may be given the appearance of cord, and will havethe same effect on the completed goods.

Instead of straw plaited, I may use plaits of any other like material, or I may use strips of cloth, felt, or the like.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The. method of uniting plaited straw, herein described, by fastening the edges of the braids together by embroidery-stitching, substantially as specified and set forth.

2. The method of uniting plaited straw and cord by fastening the edges of the braids together by embroidery-stitching over an interposed cord, substantially as specified and set forth.

3. The method of uniting plaited straw and wireby fastening the edges of the braids together by embroidery-stitching over an interposed wire, substantially as specified and set forth.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a plaitedstraw hat united by embroidery stitching across the adjacent edges of the braids, substantially as specified and set forth.

5. As a new article of manufacture, a plaitedstraw hat united by embroidery stitching across the adjacent edges of the braids and over interposed wire, as specified and set forth.

J AMES L. MARVIN.

WVitnesses IRONS, G. G. FRELINGHUYSEN. 

